ENIAC Then and Now
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IEEE/ACM Princeton Joint Chapter Meeting
On Febuary 15, 1946, the ENIAC was dedicated. Although this machine differed significantly from the
computers that followed, this WWII-era creation was the testbed on which the human race learned how to
build and program computers. It became a national resource, contributing to a wide variety of research and
development until it was decommissioned in 1955. In its original form, the machine was programmed by
rewiring it for each new problem. Later it was reconfigured to operate as an instruction set processor with
programs dialed into panels of rotary switches. In this presentation, we will discuss how the ENIAC worked
and how it was used in both modes of operation. We will look at a number of details of the internal operation
of the ENIAC. These details will be illustrated though demonstrations of the ENIAC in the form of a recently
developed pulse-level simulator. The presentation will also include some discussion of the simulator
implementation.
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- Date: 16 Feb 2017
- Time: 08:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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- 35 Olden Street
- Princeton University
- Princeton, New Jersey
- United States 08540
- Building: Computer Science Building
- Room Number: CS 105
Speakers
Dr. Brian Stuart
Topic:
ENIAC Then and Now
Dr. Brian Stuart is an Associate Teaching Professor of Computer Science at Drexel University. Over a
varied career, he has held industrial positions in areas including data storage, telecommunications, and
logistics, as well as consulting in areas ranging from agriculture to medicine. In addition to Drexel, he has
taught at Rhodes College and the University of Memphis. His interest in the history of computing was
sparked by stumbling across the manual of operation for the Harvard Mark I while an undergraduate. That
interest continues today with a small collection of computing artifacts he maintains, restores, and enhances in
his basement. He holds degrees from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, the University of Notre Dame, and Purdue University and has published a textbook on operating systems
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